Leuralla
| Leuralla | |
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| General information | |
| Type | House |
| Architectural style | Federation Free Classical |
| Location | 36 Olympian Parade Leura, New South Wales |
| Coordinates | 33°43′29″S 150°19′47″E / 33.7246°S 150.3297°ECoordinates: 33°43′29″S 150°19′47″E / 33.7246°S 150.3297°E |
| Construction started | 1910 |
| Completed | 1914 |
| Governing body | The Evatt Family |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | Edward Hewlett Hogben |
| Website | |
| Leuralla Toy & Railway Museum | |
Leuralla is a historic house in Leura, a suburb in the City of Blue Mountains local government area 109 km west of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia. The property is now the home of the Leuralla Toy & Railway Museum.
Leuralla was built for the independently wealthy yachtsman and big-game fishermanHarry Andreas (1879 – 1955), his wife Alice and their young family. Harry and Alice Andreas lived at Leuralla until after World War II. In 1928, Clive Evatt QC (1900 – 1984) married Marjorie Andreas, a daughter, of Harry and Alice, and the Evatt family connection to the property began. Clive Evatt Jnr, an Andreas grandson, now owns the property and he and his wife, Elizabeth Evatt, are the founders of the present museum. They are responsible for the exhibition of H.V. Evatt QC KStJ (1894 – 1965) memorabilia and for the toy and railway collection displayed in various buildings. Herbert Vere Evatt was Clive Evatt Snr's brother but had no particular connection with Leuralla and had a home of his own in Leura.
In 1903 a house, known as Leuralla, was built on the current site but was destroyed by bushfire in 1909. Between 1910 and 1914 the present house was built and the design was influenced by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The house is an example of an early 20th Century permanent residence for a wealthy family. It is an imposing two storey house set in extensive grounds in the Federation Free Classical style and is notable for its entry portico and stair, symmetry, and bracketed cornice. The walls and chimneys are rendered and the building is on a rockfaced sandstone base. Leuralla has a hipped roof with short projecting hipped wings on the southern and northern sides. The wide external sandstone staircase which has twin flights from the ground under a single storey portico. The portico is topped by a first floor balcony with balustrading. Doric columns compliment the entry and the front door is multi-paned and has sidelights. There are symmetrically placed hipped roof bay windows on the northern and southern sides of the portico. The roof is covered in slate and ridged in terracotta. The garage has Federation Anglo-Dutch style influences and its walls are shingled with a weatherboard spandrel. There is a single-storied sandstone outbuilding with a gabled roof on the Olympian Parade side of the grounds.
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